Saturday, June 9, 2012

Trivial Pursuit 140




























The script of 'X' was bought over by Actor 'A' from the writers. 

Actor 'A' came to know that Director 'D' was planning to make two films called 'Samadhi' (written by Pandit Mukhram Sharma) and 'Kahani Kismat Ki'. 

Actor 'A' liked the story idea of both films and asked Director 'D' to exchange both the scripts ('Samadhi' and 'Kahani Kismat Ki') with that of 'X'.

Director 'D' agreed as he did not mind sacrificing the two films for 'X'. 



After some time, Actor 'A', who was the first choice for the main lead in 'X', could not work in the film because of his busy schedule.

Actor 'B' was then offered the role, but he refused to work with Director 'D', on the grounds that he could not stand the smell of the latter's hair oil.

The role was then offered to Actor 'C', who refused it by saying, "your hero is too dry, at least give him a few songs".



Pran Saab, who was playing a pivotal role in the film, suggested Director 'D', to consider Actor 'Z' for the main lead.

Director 'D' was impressed by Actor 'Z' and selected him to play the main lead, but he was in for another shock when the heroine, Mumtaz, decided against doing the film.

Actor 'Z' then told Actress 'Y' that no heroine was willing to work with him.

Actress 'Y' agreed to play the heroine in the film and as they say.. "The Rest Is History" !!




Identify A, B, C, D, X, Y & Z.





Additional Trivia :

'X' was inspired by the Spaghetti Western Classic "Death Rides A Horse". 









6 comments:

  1. This is the story of X-Zanjeer.
    A-Dharmendra;D-Prakash Mehra;B- raaj Kumar; C- probably Shotgun;Z- Bachchan Sahab; Y- Jayaji

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  2. deepak praji is correct on all counts,except "c">
    "c" is DEV SAAB.

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  3. also,'hindi film "YAADON KI BARAT" was bsed on"DEATH RIDES A HORSE".

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  4. Actualy Amitabh was the fourth choice for this role.The role was also refused by Rajesh Khanna as ther was no song for the hero. And I think it was the dialogue-writer duo of salim-javed ( and not Pran) who recommeded Amitabh's name to the director after seeing his performance in the movie 'Bombay to Goa'.

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  5. milind sir,i haven't come across name of RAJESH KHANNA as far as
    film"ZANZEER" is concerned.
    though,he was first choice to play lead role in "DEEWAR".
    you may pl.throw light on RAJESH KHANNA angle,as far as "ZANZEER" is concerned!

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  6. X : Zanjeer

    A : Dharmendra

    D : Prakash Mehra

    B : Raaj Kumar

    C : Dev Anand

    Z : Amitabh Bachchan

    Y : Jaya Bhaduri

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